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Installing Solaris boot blocks

Published 14 Mar 2016 Read time 1 min 30 sec(s) (3067 visits).

This post discusses how to install the boot block on a Solaris system running either the older UFS file system or the newer ZFS root file system.

Published 11 Mar 2016 Read time 51 sec(s) (2635 visits).

You can set time values in non-global zones that are different from the value in the global zone.

Published 4 Feb 2016 Read time 1 min 38 sec(s) (3386 visits).

Once completed, clients can use this repository server to get updates over the local network instead of via the internet.

Published 28 Jan 2016 Read time 23 sec(s) (2717 visits).

Solaris 11 provides some of the open-source version control as IPS package

Published 26 Jan 2016 Read time 1 min 22 sec(s) (2619 visits).

A simple how-to article providing the steps necessary to locate a failed compaonent of a ZFS Storage Appliance using both the BUI and CLI

Published 13 Jan 2016 Read time 1 min 37 sec(s) (2772 visits).

A step-by-step instructions to change the nodename of a ZFS storage appliance

Published 12 Jan 2016 Read time 1 min 14 sec(s) (2544 visits).

The preferred way of temporarily disabling access to smb / cifs shares is to set the parameter smbshare to off.

Published 12 Jan 2016 Read time 46 sec(s) (1904 visits).

Clearing a continually lit ZFSSA fault LED after making sure there are no faults remaining on the system.

Published 12 Jan 2016 Read time 1 min 10 sec(s) (2659 visits).

A factory reset of ZFSSA will reset the appliance configuration back to factory settings of the current software version, and reboot the appliance

Published 12 Jan 2016 Read time 28 sec(s) (2558 visits).

Shutdown a ZFS Storage Appliance (or one node of the appliance) from CLI without typing 'Y' to the confirmation.